{"id":3987,"date":"2020-03-01T22:35:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T22:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2020-03-01T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T22:35:27","slug":"covid-death-rate-by-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/covid-death-rate-by-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Death rate by age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Nextdoor posted this:<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"content-title\">Covid-19 risk is very low for people under 50 in good health<\/h5>\n<p class=\"content-body\"><span class=\"truncate-line-truncation-wrapper\" data-testid=\"truncate-container\"><span class=\"truncate-line-truncation-content content-body-full\"><span class=\"Linkify\">Age of Coronavirus Deaths Based on all 72,314 cases of COVID-19 confirmed, suspected, and asymptomatic cases in China as of February 11, a paper by the Chinese CCDC released on February 17 and published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology [1] has found that the risk of death increases the older you are, as follows: COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE: *Death Rate = (number of deaths \/ number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). This probability differs depending on the age group. The percentage shown below does NOT represent in any way the share of deaths by age group. Rather, it represents, for a person in a given age group, the risk of dying if infected with COVID-19. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AGE DEATH RATE<br \/>\n80+ years old 14.8%<br \/>\n70-79 years old 8%<br \/>\n60-69 years old 3.6%<br \/>\n50-59 years old 1.3%<br \/>\n40-49 years old 0.4%<br \/>\n30-39 years old 0.2%<br \/>\n20-29 years old 0.2%<br \/>\n10-19 years old 0.2%<br \/>\n0-9 years old no fatalities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Nextdoor posted this: Covid-19 risk is very low for people under 50 in good health Age of Coronavirus Deaths Based on all 72,314 cases of COVID-19 confirmed, suspected, and asymptomatic cases in China as of February 11, a paper by the Chinese CCDC released on February 17 and published in the Chinese Journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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